Approach This paper explores a new idea presenting the possible relationship between organizational learning and organizational design. The establishment of this relation is based upon extensive literature review. Findings Organizational learning theory has been used to understand several organizational phenomena, like resources and competencies, tacit knowledge or the role of memory in the org...

Crossan, Lane and White (1999) presented a model of organizational learning that includes intuiting, interpreting, integrating and institutionalizing processes. Organizational learning studies that have followed Crossan, Lane and White’s 1999 4I framework have explored and elaborated on the initial three processes of organizational learning. Theses studies however, have not fully elaborated on ...

This paper reviews three major classes of structural models of episodic and semantic memory which have been proposed to describe the organization of permanent memory. Although semantic memory workers have developed methods for obtaining representations of these models from empirical data, students of episodic memory generally have not. A method is presented for extracting representations of mem...

Software development organizations are currently under tremendous pressure to refine and streamline the process of developing software. Process maturity models have been created to define a organization-wide process for all software development efforts [Paulk et al. 93]. But these methods advocate a one-size-fits-all approach that can have detrimental effects on organizations that develop diver...

Organizational memory (OM) is the means by which knowledge from the past is brought to bear on present activities. For effective use of OM, it must be represented in a machineunderstandable form, so that man, machine, and OM can work in concert to perform business activities such as problem solving, decision making, workflow management, and organizational learning. To this end, we have develope...

Though not especially media-rich, mailing lists remain in use and retain popularity for their builtin technological controls and their capability to “reply” to a message (“continuing a thread”). The motivation for extracting knowledge fragments from the unstructured text of mailing lists is compelling, though successes doing so may be considered only partial because it requires mental processin...

When problems are present in production, equipment or the process which are critical for organizations, many management personnel and experts have to meet to propose a solution. Often, the solutions proposed don’t have the best results because of management influence on the opinions of the people at the meeting; the experts withhold and don’t use their valuable information, product of years of ...